HEYO!

Dear pamilya,

THANK YOU for your letters! Alyssa, yours made me smile :) I miss you all! I miss being with you, but I don't really miss being home except that I can't nap and I'm still sick. It's nice to nap when you're sick.

This keyboard is waaaay better than the one i used in the laundry room. don't miss that at all.

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tagalog is getting easier to understand... memorization is mahirap, which means difficult. kyle is progressing :) :) :) we watched a clip that he recorded for the mtc to show our little district that was in english, so we could definitely understand. he talked about reading the bom the first night after we taught him bc even though he was so tired, he knew how excited we were and didn't want to let us down. he said he knew we cared about him. we taught him mtw this week and he accepted our companionship's invite to attend church here at the mtc with our little branch on sunday! we checked to make sure that was okay and br. langer, our teacher, said he'd tell him the details of when and where. our branch consists of 3 districts-- two of which are new and one that's been here 7 weeks and they leave soon. our district is two elder companionships and our trio of three sisters. the other newbies are two elder compships and two sister compships and the oder district is two elder compships and one sister compship. that older sister compship is in our room in the residences. they're great sisters and very opposite of each other. sister aoina (a-ween-a) is from new zealand and has lava-lavas :) very nice, quieter sister. she had surgery this morning to scope her knee to see what's wrong with it. she hurt it playing 4square, which is super intense here and i'll never play, during her first week or so. sister curtis is a blonde, super girly cheerleader with a social personality and they said at first the two of them clashed. but they get along really well now.

the elders in our district are great. elder tumanuvau (too-mahn-oo-vow) is samoan and i LOVE his accent! elder woolf, his comp, is from washington or something and is a smart little bugger. elder meek is a slc boy i think and is pretty quiet but has a really goofy side that randomly pops out and cracks us up. elder cornelius is from rexburg and goes to byui and is very stubborn and hilarious. i feel like he's gonna do well in the field, but he just has to decide to stay and for the right reasons. he can do anything he sets his mind to. but i think the feeling i had in the first few days has not gone away for him yet. i wanted to cry and disappear. it was way hard. but at the end of day 2 or 3 we had comp inventory and just shared feelings and i felt better after a few tears. that's the only time i've cried.

sorry if i say stuff i've alread said since i can't remember what i've told you sometimes.

we're gonna have 2 more investigators soon and we're going to ask kyle to be baptized the next time we meet with him, tho we aren't sure when that is. we know he feels our love, now we want him to feel God's love and want to be part of His church!

oopsh it wants me off the comp. love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!